Who said Nazis can't have nukes? - German Reich TFH HPP AAR

22. Pushing forward



I've decided to DOW Greece to help stuck Italian AI. Wargoal used for this is concede defeat as I don't want any of Greek land.




Campaign in Malaya is looking good. It actually seems they've got only one HQ and no IC at all (randomly clicked through some Malayan provinces and none of them had any IC).




Meanwhile Athens are under pressure of German marines.




Without any combat divisions Malaya was an easy target and their rare mines now belongs to Germany, as a jackpot 18k of rares have been salvaged. Also I don't know what Transjordani cavalry and HQ are doing there (I've spotted another ones in Burma and Borneo).




Panzers to the rescue!




Battle for Athens was one of the bloodier battles when comparing with e.g. campaign in Portugal where battles were won with over 300 Portuguese dead and 2 Germans dead.




Marines which were deployed in Malaya were redeployed to Gudalcanal, one of Germany secretly constructed bases. Also another corps of marines are on their way towards Gudalacanal base.




Panzers quickly seized another Greek VP, Salonika and peace was made another day. With concede defeat war goal I've expected a NAP to be signed (it is in wargoal description) but no NAP with Greece. Possibly bug?




Another research completed for Wunderwaffe efforts.




Looks like Italy revived and they are actually doing something!




When second marine corps arrived to Gudalcanal, things got moving.




New Zealand is next target. I've noticed that they are in war against Italy (possibly due to Greece).




Resistance is heavier then expected.




Didn't they got lost?

FinnishFury said:

It's Guadalcanal, not Gudalcanal! Grammar Nazi strikes!

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You have sincere apologies for that

Yanks are still sleeping although their neutrality is quite low but it seems I did nothing that provoked them. Their highest threat received is from Peru. If I would attack them now they'd be probably finished before nuke is ready.

23. Troubles at New Zealand



Attack on Christchurch has been reconsidered as defenses were greater than my estimates and easier target has been chosen.




And easier target quickly falls.




Another target is Auckland as defenders of North Island are already fighting in Wellington.




Meanwhile in Greece Italy is finally making progress.




Germany is one stop closer to the nuke. 2 more civil techs and nuke techs unlock (next civil nuclear tech will be researched in December).




Special forces training will prove itself useful in future special forces action.




Wellington finally falls. These causalities ratio is horrid.




Auckland falls few days later.






However counterattacks are launched immediately. One medium bomber squadron is rebased to Wellington to provide air support.




Counterattacks are repelled and German marines can take a break and recover some organization.




However Wellington is once more attacked. I've expected an easy prey and got this. New Zealand was mobilized before strike due to war with Italy and therefore well prepared. At least I can picture what will take place in Australia if I decide to attack them.




Situation in China is stalemate and remembers bloody grinder. I've decided that intervention there and opening second front in the south would be vital for Japan. At the moment I am thinking which wargoal will I use to not to break Japan gains, I will probably attack with take Guangdong wargoal. I've been expanding ports, airfield and infrastructure there for a while in all 3 Germany controlled provinces in the south which will serve as starting point in opening second front.

P.S: I already hate myself for deciding to intervene in China.

There's just too many of them and terrain isn't exactly one of the best. I've already once intervened as Germany in Sino-Japanese war in HPP and it was pain, I've spent there more then a year and half and all I've managed to do was to conquer Guanxi and and beat PRC to 90% warscore.

guillec87 said:

though I foresee you'll be Master of the Earth before nukes are ready

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I don't thinks this will happen. Campaign in China will take a lot of resources and time and I won't probably attempt any operations in America till China is beaten. I'd the techs required for the bomb will be ready latest at February 1944.

24. The intervention



May the 1st June 1942 be always remembered as day when Germany decided to intervene in Sino-Japanese war.




Bombing initiative have immediately started. 5 wings of medium bombers are dedicated to supply Chinese with steady flow of bombs. As you see on this picture research of escort fighters paid off.




First battles have been fought and German troops are advancing towards China. At this moment Heer forces there consists of 30 standard infantry divisions (2x INF, 1xSUP(H)) and 5 cavalry divisions (2x CAV, 1xSUP(T)).




Meanwhile defendres of New Zealand are giving up.




Auckland is left defended by lone marine division, rest of marines corps are on their way towards Christchurch which has been bombed for some time to soften defenses.




Total of 30 brigades have been trapped. 21 are militia ones 9 are regular infantry.




Defenders of Christchurch are out of organization due to bombing and are going to give up. New Zealand will fall soon.




Another Chinese are trapped, 2 cavalry brigades and 12 militia ones. However I am afraid that these are last pockets formed in China as infra and lack of supplies together with horrific terrain will slow possible future exploitations and situation in China will turn into meatgrinder.




New Zealand falls and I've learned a lesson - I need to bring bigger guns to Australia.






Battles for pockets - Germans troops are supported by Kriegsmarine and Chinese are not posing a threat. Damn, I'd love to use Kriegsmarine guns in those Chinese mountains.




That's a lot of movement. I don't like it on the other hand pressure on Japanese is reduced and hopefully they will make significant gains.




Chinese aircraft is really no match for Luftwaffe.




Pockets have been shattered and German troops are now advancing into Chinese heartland.




Another piece to Wunderwaffe effort. Construction of 10 flying bombs immediately started.




Finally Italy finished of Greece, I am curious how they will fare against Kuwait and Iraq.




Haikou, province with nice level 6 airfield, is seized and another medium bombers arrive there to increase strength of the bombing effort.




Guangzhou is encircled with some Chinese defenders within it.



I've managed to create a solid beachhead in China but their reinforcements from the north have arrived and I will have tough times there.
Immediately after V1 are completed I will use them to destroy as much of Chinas industry as possible, meanwhile the bombing effort will continue and German medium bombers will bomb the living sh*t out of Chinese and hopefully after some time their reinforcement budget will be bigger than their available IC.

Working on that, supply flow is so far good due to expanding ports prior to intervention.

guillec87 said:

how many boots do you have in China?

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280k soldiers there in 35 divisions that makes 560k boots.

Merry Christmas to everyone and happy New Year!

SSmith said:

And if they're managing to get all those boots to the front line the supply situation in China can't be that bad, right?

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So far it's good, mainly due to proximity to 3 high level ports. I am wondering how supply situation will look like in Chinese heartland.